11-30-2025, 06:49 PM
All that needs to be said have been said, so I have little to add to that.
If this is your first radio, as has been suggested, do some reading.
Don't plug it in.
Replace all the caps.
If you plan to keep doing this after this radio (very likely; most of us wanted that one radio restored...and look at us now), get some decent tube tester (the prices have come down a bit).
Hickok 800 or 600A are good basic mutual conductance testers and will test most if not all tubes.
I have just listened to this radio in my basement with 3-ft dangling wire for the antenna (earlier when i wrote about it, I had me touching the antenna clip); sounds good. Our local station transmits music round the clock exactly at 1160 AM, very convenient for the first check.
If this is your first radio, as has been suggested, do some reading.
Don't plug it in.
Replace all the caps.
If you plan to keep doing this after this radio (very likely; most of us wanted that one radio restored...and look at us now), get some decent tube tester (the prices have come down a bit).
Hickok 800 or 600A are good basic mutual conductance testers and will test most if not all tubes.
I have just listened to this radio in my basement with 3-ft dangling wire for the antenna (earlier when i wrote about it, I had me touching the antenna clip); sounds good. Our local station transmits music round the clock exactly at 1160 AM, very convenient for the first check.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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